Solvay Medical's KetaSpire® PEEK resin to help with COVID-19 vaccine production

Solvay's medical KetaSpire® PEEK (polyetheretherketone) resin has been selected by Malema Sensors® for the production of SumoFlo® single-use Coriolis flowmeters that play a vital role in the production of the Covid-19 vaccine role
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Malema evaluated several competitive PEEK products and chose Solvay's high-performance resins because of their excellent physical properties, such as a very high Young's modulus - which helps ensure the sensor's measurement accuracy and the integrity of plastics under constant vibration
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Solvay KetaSpire® resin products are USP Class VI compliant, can withstand gamma sterilization, and have very low levels of leachables and leachables, helping to achieve high cleanliness
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A single-use Coriolis flowmeter that can be sterilized with gamma rays is needed for biopharmaceutical companies to speed up the mass production of Covid-19 vaccines
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As the world's only manufacturer of Coriolis flowmeters with an all-plastic liquid flow path, Malema Sensors® provides leading manufacturers with modular process skids for the U.
S.
government's Operation Warp Speed
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"The shift from stainless-steel bioprocessing infrastructure to single-use components illustrates the growing importance of high-performance thermoplastics in the healthcare industry
," said Anna Maria Bertasa, global market manager for healthcare, Solvay Specialty Polymers.
KetaSpire® PEEK products meet the demanding requirements of Malema Coriolis flowmeters, helping the company successfully differentiate itself from the competition and supporting industry activities such as rapid vaccine production
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Malema Sensors® supplies its injection molding and extrusion producers with KetaSpire® PEEK resin and expressly requests it to produce liquid flow path components for SumoFlo® Coriolis flowmeters
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The flowmeter is the first and only PEEK single-use flowmeter for the life sciences industry, and the single-use flowmeter with the highest measurement accuracy and repeatability to date, significantly improving tangential flow filtration, depth filtration and Chromatographic analysis and other key biopharmaceutical processes
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“The single-use model, which avoids contamination, increases production speed and productivity, has revolutionized pharmaceutical production, which has been amply demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic
,” said Dan Malani, Chairman of the Board of Malema Sensors.
Solvay's materials have contributed
to our single-use Coriolis flowmeters, which measure mass and volume flow, temperature and density, and are known for their extremely high measurement accuracy.
With all PEEK Coriolis flowmeters, we have a four-year plan, and our collaboration with Solvay has started on day one of the plan
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